Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of tropical trees found in the East Indies and Africa, natural order Sapotaceæ.
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- noun summer cypress
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Examples
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I was next employed in collecting the fruit of a species of bassia, or what I should call a butter tree.
Mark Seaworth William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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